Sound effects tag

Church Bell Sound Effects

Church Bell sound effects, mostly heard the way you'd really hear them: across rooftops, over traffic and through the trees. Bells ringing out over European city streets, tolling in a quiet village, carrying across a sleepy suburb at night. A medieval town square has its own. Few sounds place a scene in a country or a century so quickly.

Libraries
53
Publishers
30
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$9.95 to $466
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Recorded or designed
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Channel format
MonoStereoM/SSurroundAmbisonic

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Embedded metadata
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All 53 libraries tagged Church Bell

96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
A library of historical church bell sound effects covering European (Middle Ages-20th C.) and 19th C. maritime bells, from close-up tower recordings to distant soundscapes.
32 files · 1.72 GB · Metadata
-28%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Ambisonic B.
Atenas, Costa Rica mountain town sound effects recorded in first-order ambisonics and binaural across a full 24-hour cycle, covering plaza life, church bells, bird song, tropical storms, rivers, and nocturnal insects.
35 files · 15.5 GB
-16%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
West African rural ambience sound effects featuring village life, bird chirps, crickets, cicadas, frogs, cockcrows, and nighttime insect beds recorded across farmland and riverside settings at 96kHz.
20 files · 1.86 GB · Metadata
Was $30.00, now $25.00
Add Rural Ambience Vol 01 to cart
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo, Surround, Ambisonic B.
A collection of sound effects capturing Spanish rural and semi-rural environments, featuring pine forests, small villages, cicadas, birds, wind, distant voices, animals, and light human activity in Ambisonic, stereo, and surround formats.
80 files · 20 GB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Authentic urban sound effects capture Warsaw's essence through 206 minutes of ambient recordings, from bustling Old Town squares to tranquil parks and public transport atmospheres.
50 files · 6.68 GB · Metadata
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Within historic York's cobbled streets, natural ambiences blend tourist voices, sound effects of ancient bells, and authentic hand-struck coins, capturing the city's vibrant heritage through pristine field recordings.
26 files · 4.33 GB · Metadata
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Dark and atmospheric bell sound effects, featuring manipulated church and tower chimes transformed into haunting tones, distorted tolls, and eerie soundscapes suitable for horror productions.
31 files · 3.32 GB · Metadata

Most of the bells here sit inside city and village ambiences rather than on their own, which places them in a real setting. A church bell recorded on a corner of a busy City comes with the Traffic, voices and birds that make it believable. Distance changes everything. Up close a bell is a hard metallic clang with a long ring, while far away it's a soft, round tone that drifts in and out with the wind. Period dramas, weddings, funerals and open world games all use them, often just a few strikes on the hour behind everything else.

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